Thursday, October 28, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Bored before bedtime.
Courtesy of The Beat, Disney cast members are packin' heat again.
Sandy Barbour, I don't care what it costs, but re-sign Jeff Tedford, dammit.
Casshern is coming to America, courtesy of Dreamworks. I saw ads for the DVD in Tokyo, and I was all excited to buy it until I realized it wasn't out there yet.
Hey Jess, Anime News Network reports that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is coming to Cartoon Network November 6th.
I guess Republicans are after the minority vote this year....er, sort of.
Lastly, we're back...
Sandy Barbour, I don't care what it costs, but re-sign Jeff Tedford, dammit.
Casshern is coming to America, courtesy of Dreamworks. I saw ads for the DVD in Tokyo, and I was all excited to buy it until I realized it wasn't out there yet.
Hey Jess, Anime News Network reports that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is coming to Cartoon Network November 6th.
I guess Republicans are after the minority vote this year....er, sort of.
Lastly, we're back...
Tokyo Day 3: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Ahh, the Tokyo Game Show. TGS is sort of like E3 here in the USA, except anyone can go the TGS. For 1000 yen. That's like nine bucks. It cost us more to get to the show than to attend.
I won't say much about the show, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. A lot of the games that drew huge crowds, like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Resident Evil (aka Biohazard) 4, I had already seen in San Diego at ComicCon. I will say it was crowded (as in, difficult to move around in) and it was loud. Deafeningly loud.
Look, a giant chocobo.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a CG movie sequel to FF7, rumored for DVD release or for the Sony PSP. The stills and clips I've seen are amazing. This is the one thing I wanted to wait in line for, but the line had already been cut off for the rest of the day.
Speaking of the PSP, here is a giant PSP...
FF7: Before Crisis is a FF7 prequel (boy, FF7 sure is popular) for Vodafone mobile phones. I think it is SquareEnix's first foray into mobile phone games. Sadly, no release here in America.
Kingdom Hearts II was here and playable. I wasn't willing to test the throngs of sweaty gamers to give it a try though.
Can't go far at these types of things without running into cosplayers...
...or Star Wars. Did you know Japan has an official Star Wars credit card? Do we?
A few booth babe pictures. I didn't take a lot because, of, I don't know, I WAS ON MY HONEYMOON. Duh.
We left the TGS and stopped in Shibuya to do some shopping. Here's Rhonda with her friend Hachiko.
We went back to the hotel to change, then went to our one nice dinner on this trip. The restaurant of choice:
Ninja.
I can't make that up.
(I took some video there, but it was so dark I don't think anything came out. Yes, there are special effects, and yes, the wait...er, ninjas, try to sneak up on you.)
We finished off a lovely day at Starbucks, right next to the hotel, our first taste of home on the trip (Pepsi and AM/PM don't count). They had a green tea frappucino so Rhonda had to get it. Unknown why they don't have it here, as it is really good.
I was a little taken aback when I ordered a scone and they asked if I wanted it warmed up. Since that never happens, I said, "Hai!" It was a lot more biscuit-like than here in the States, not sure if I liked that more.
Coffee is like $4 at Starbucks. Not an espresso drink, coffee. If you go somewhere else, it's more like six bucks. And there aren't free refills in Japan, at least not very often. No Big Gulp at AM/PM. Oh, and they don't have venti on the board behind the baristas. They do, however, have a size smaller than tall. They have venti on the menu at the counter (where ignorant foreigners like me point at the pictures), but I doubt many people get it. I like a venti coffee now and then, but just one cup a day - I pity people who are used to drinking a pot of coffee every day. They must go broke.
Then again, a can (I mean, an aluminum bottle) of soda is 120 yen, or a little over a buck, and there were no 12-packs (or 6-packs, for that matter) to be found...
All the pictures from Tokyo can be found here.
I won't say much about the show, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. A lot of the games that drew huge crowds, like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Resident Evil (aka Biohazard) 4, I had already seen in San Diego at ComicCon. I will say it was crowded (as in, difficult to move around in) and it was loud. Deafeningly loud.
Look, a giant chocobo.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a CG movie sequel to FF7, rumored for DVD release or for the Sony PSP. The stills and clips I've seen are amazing. This is the one thing I wanted to wait in line for, but the line had already been cut off for the rest of the day.
Speaking of the PSP, here is a giant PSP...
FF7: Before Crisis is a FF7 prequel (boy, FF7 sure is popular) for Vodafone mobile phones. I think it is SquareEnix's first foray into mobile phone games. Sadly, no release here in America.
Kingdom Hearts II was here and playable. I wasn't willing to test the throngs of sweaty gamers to give it a try though.
Can't go far at these types of things without running into cosplayers...
...or Star Wars. Did you know Japan has an official Star Wars credit card? Do we?
A few booth babe pictures. I didn't take a lot because, of, I don't know, I WAS ON MY HONEYMOON. Duh.
We left the TGS and stopped in Shibuya to do some shopping. Here's Rhonda with her friend Hachiko.
We went back to the hotel to change, then went to our one nice dinner on this trip. The restaurant of choice:
Ninja.
I can't make that up.
(I took some video there, but it was so dark I don't think anything came out. Yes, there are special effects, and yes, the wait...er, ninjas, try to sneak up on you.)
We finished off a lovely day at Starbucks, right next to the hotel, our first taste of home on the trip (Pepsi and AM/PM don't count). They had a green tea frappucino so Rhonda had to get it. Unknown why they don't have it here, as it is really good.
I was a little taken aback when I ordered a scone and they asked if I wanted it warmed up. Since that never happens, I said, "Hai!" It was a lot more biscuit-like than here in the States, not sure if I liked that more.
Coffee is like $4 at Starbucks. Not an espresso drink, coffee. If you go somewhere else, it's more like six bucks. And there aren't free refills in Japan, at least not very often. No Big Gulp at AM/PM. Oh, and they don't have venti on the board behind the baristas. They do, however, have a size smaller than tall. They have venti on the menu at the counter (where ignorant foreigners like me point at the pictures), but I doubt many people get it. I like a venti coffee now and then, but just one cup a day - I pity people who are used to drinking a pot of coffee every day. They must go broke.
Then again, a can (I mean, an aluminum bottle) of soda is 120 yen, or a little over a buck, and there were no 12-packs (or 6-packs, for that matter) to be found...
All the pictures from Tokyo can be found here.
Eminem's "Mosh"
Eminem's new video, Mosh. It's a shame it didn't come out earlier, I think it could've been the most important music video since We Are The World. It defintely should've been his first single, instead of Just Lose It.
My mom asked me the other day, "With this war going on, where are our protest songs?" Well, here's one. Funny how, Eminem, of all people, is a uniter, not a divider.
Mosh lyrics
My mom asked me the other day, "With this war going on, where are our protest songs?" Well, here's one. Funny how, Eminem, of all people, is a uniter, not a divider.
Mosh lyrics
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Wong Kar-Wai's 2046
I stumbled across this review of 2046 and critique of Wong Kar-Wai's films while reading Greencine Daily. It's a good read if you are a fan of Wong's or even if you've never heard of him.
I saw Chungking Express on a big screen in Film 50 class at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, and it is one of only two movies I can remember where I sat speechless in my seat as the credits rolled (the other being Pulp Fiction). I was coming off a break-up; my first significant break-up with my first real girlfriend; and the movie's theme of love lost-and-found-again and the stunning visuals really left a mark on me. That, and I thought to myself, geez, I hope I am not this pathetic. I need to get on with my life. It's still a sentimental favorite and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Since then, I've followed WKW's career with much interest. Recently, a box set of Wong's films was released and, naturally, I snapped that one up. It's got a couple of films I haven't seen but have heard much about, Days of Being Wild and As Tears Go By. I just got it this week and as soon as I make time to see them, I'll post a review.
I saw a billboard for 2046 in Shinjuku and I had a fanboy moment right there on the street. Can't wait for a domestic theatrical or DVD release.
Go see Chungking Express. Fallen Angels is good in a cynical way; slick and polished and devoid of emotion, it's the anti-CKE. In the Mood For Love has amazing performances from Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung (Broken Sword and Flying Snow in Hero, respectively) and is a must-see. Go see them all.
I saw Chungking Express on a big screen in Film 50 class at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, and it is one of only two movies I can remember where I sat speechless in my seat as the credits rolled (the other being Pulp Fiction). I was coming off a break-up; my first significant break-up with my first real girlfriend; and the movie's theme of love lost-and-found-again and the stunning visuals really left a mark on me. That, and I thought to myself, geez, I hope I am not this pathetic. I need to get on with my life. It's still a sentimental favorite and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Since then, I've followed WKW's career with much interest. Recently, a box set of Wong's films was released and, naturally, I snapped that one up. It's got a couple of films I haven't seen but have heard much about, Days of Being Wild and As Tears Go By. I just got it this week and as soon as I make time to see them, I'll post a review.
I saw a billboard for 2046 in Shinjuku and I had a fanboy moment right there on the street. Can't wait for a domestic theatrical or DVD release.
Go see Chungking Express. Fallen Angels is good in a cynical way; slick and polished and devoid of emotion, it's the anti-CKE. In the Mood For Love has amazing performances from Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung (Broken Sword and Flying Snow in Hero, respectively) and is a must-see. Go see them all.
Tokyo, Day 2: Saturday, September 25, 2004
We decided to travel around Tokyo on Saturday, since it was the only day left in our trip that we didn't already have something planned. Being big sports fans, we made our first stop Tokyo Dome City.
(Yes, that is Rhonda waving at the base of the Tokyo Dome.)
After breakfast at Mister Donut, we made our way to the Tokyo Dome gift shops, where we proceeded to splurge on Yomiuri Giants merchandise. I found out being a L or XL in America translates to "get the biggest shirt they have." I forget what the actual size was, but it was basically equivalent to a XXL. But in the end, I got a sweet Giants jersey with sewn-on lettering, with a hat to match. Rhonda got a Giabbit, which is a "Giants rabbit" and the Giants' mascot. You have to see it to understand.
We also visited the Tokyo Baseball Hall of Fame.
I took a picture with the jersey of the all-time home-run king, the immortal Sadaharu Oh.
It was very busy around the Tokyo Dome because the baseball stike in Japan had just ended (the first ever) and the Giants were hosting the Hanshin Tigers. That's sort of like visiting the Bronx when the Yankees are in town playing the Red Sox. I wanted to go to a game but we knew we didn't have time.
We ducked out of the rain and into one of the adjoining buildings. There was a small arcade and one of the games was from Konami and was like DDR, but was a martial arts game. Think about a cross between DDR and Tae Bo. Rhonda played it until she was completely worn out. I have video but no pictures, so I'll have to post something later.
Did I mention the rain? The weather our entire trip was brutal. The papers say it was the hottest September in Tokyo in about eighty years. It was hot, sticky, and constantly rainy. (Rhonda picked up an umbrella at AM/PM for 400 yen, or $4. I tried to stick it out without an umbrella, but eventually I caved and went to Eddie Bauer and bought myself an umbrella. And, of course, the rain stopped.)
There was a huge shopping center near Tokyo Dome. We tried to pick a restaurant with a picture menu while avoiding KFC and McDonald's, but we couldn't agree on anything. Instead, we found a grocery store and loaded up on sushi, drinks, and chicken karage from the deli.
After stuffing ourselves silly, we took the subway to Ginza, which is sort of the Beverly Hills of Tokyo. We really only had a couple destinations there, the first of which was the Sony Building.
It's a huge showroom of Sony's cutting-edge products, many of which are not for sale here or even in Japan. For some reason, there was a BMW in there.
This is the PSX, Sony's attempt at making the PlayStation2 a set-top entertainment center.
And there were cute robot pooches that served no practical purpose.
They also have a PlayStation floor where you can play games for free. You can even make requests as to what you want to play.
By the time we left Sony and visited the Nissan Building, we were both getting a little irritable. We made a quick stop to buy tickets to Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disneyland ticket center in Ginza, then headed back to Shinjuku.
We did some more shopping in Shinjuku, but alas, there weren't any more pictures. I think I had got tired of lugging the cameras around and left them in the room.
All the pictures from Tokyo can be found here.
(Yes, that is Rhonda waving at the base of the Tokyo Dome.)
After breakfast at Mister Donut, we made our way to the Tokyo Dome gift shops, where we proceeded to splurge on Yomiuri Giants merchandise. I found out being a L or XL in America translates to "get the biggest shirt they have." I forget what the actual size was, but it was basically equivalent to a XXL. But in the end, I got a sweet Giants jersey with sewn-on lettering, with a hat to match. Rhonda got a Giabbit, which is a "Giants rabbit" and the Giants' mascot. You have to see it to understand.
We also visited the Tokyo Baseball Hall of Fame.
I took a picture with the jersey of the all-time home-run king, the immortal Sadaharu Oh.
It was very busy around the Tokyo Dome because the baseball stike in Japan had just ended (the first ever) and the Giants were hosting the Hanshin Tigers. That's sort of like visiting the Bronx when the Yankees are in town playing the Red Sox. I wanted to go to a game but we knew we didn't have time.
We ducked out of the rain and into one of the adjoining buildings. There was a small arcade and one of the games was from Konami and was like DDR, but was a martial arts game. Think about a cross between DDR and Tae Bo. Rhonda played it until she was completely worn out. I have video but no pictures, so I'll have to post something later.
Did I mention the rain? The weather our entire trip was brutal. The papers say it was the hottest September in Tokyo in about eighty years. It was hot, sticky, and constantly rainy. (Rhonda picked up an umbrella at AM/PM for 400 yen, or $4. I tried to stick it out without an umbrella, but eventually I caved and went to Eddie Bauer and bought myself an umbrella. And, of course, the rain stopped.)
There was a huge shopping center near Tokyo Dome. We tried to pick a restaurant with a picture menu while avoiding KFC and McDonald's, but we couldn't agree on anything. Instead, we found a grocery store and loaded up on sushi, drinks, and chicken karage from the deli.
After stuffing ourselves silly, we took the subway to Ginza, which is sort of the Beverly Hills of Tokyo. We really only had a couple destinations there, the first of which was the Sony Building.
It's a huge showroom of Sony's cutting-edge products, many of which are not for sale here or even in Japan. For some reason, there was a BMW in there.
This is the PSX, Sony's attempt at making the PlayStation2 a set-top entertainment center.
And there were cute robot pooches that served no practical purpose.
They also have a PlayStation floor where you can play games for free. You can even make requests as to what you want to play.
By the time we left Sony and visited the Nissan Building, we were both getting a little irritable. We made a quick stop to buy tickets to Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disneyland ticket center in Ginza, then headed back to Shinjuku.
We did some more shopping in Shinjuku, but alas, there weren't any more pictures. I think I had got tired of lugging the cameras around and left them in the room.
All the pictures from Tokyo can be found here.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Sin City teaser
Sin City teaser. Same footage D, Marv, Elt, and I saw at San Diego ComicCon. Check it out and be amazed. (Thanks Marv)
Tokyo Day 1: Friday, September 24, 2004
Because of all that sleep we had on Thursday we got up early on Friday. Way. Early. So we had breakfast in the hotel, which cost us about $20 each (my first shocking experience with the expensive nature of Tokyo, but not my last). But it was a good buffet, and I had all the coffee I wanted (more on that later).
We were supposed to get picked up for our tour to the sumo tournament at 12:30, but it was barely 9:30. We found the hotel where our tour met, then wandered around a little. We ended up at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
I say skip the tour and head to the observation deck. The view was impressive, even if the weather was not participating.
I saw this thing in the building and when no one was using it, I snapped a picture:
It's for smoking. You smoke behind the screen and that green thing sucks up all the smoke. If you made these in America you could make a mint.
Anyway, eventually the bus picked us up and drove us all the way from Shinjuku to Tokyo station, stopping along the way at a couple other hotels. It took about an hour to get to Tokyo, in the meantime we passed the Imperial Palace:
and Tokyo Tower. Finally, we arrived and met up with our tour guide. Anyone going to Japan and planning to take a tour in English should look into JTB Sunrise Tours. We might have been able to get by without a guide, but we wouldn't have known what was going on. The tour guide did a great job of explaining the rules and traditions of sumo to our group.
This is the trophy awarded to the winner of the tournament. There's also a little museum at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, the sumo stadium.
Here are some stills of the action, I'll post some video at a later date:
It's really something to see, and since there are only three tournaments a year, we were fortunate to be in Tokyo during the fall tournament. It's easy to see sumo wrestlers and just think, "big, fat guys," but they really are awesome athletes. Very agile, very powerful.
On the way back, we stopped in Akihibara, aka "Electric Town". It certainly lives up to the name, it's like Vegas or a scene out of Blade Runner:
This is also where I whipped out the plastic for the first time, buying up three Soul of Chogokin Evangelions (to match the Unit 02 Chogokin I bought at FanimeCon and an Evangelion model from the new PlayStation2 game. It was an Evangelion-kinda night:
The store we were in closed, so we checked out a couple arcades. I'm a big fan of Sega games, so naturally this caught my eye.
The arcade didn't die off in Tokyo like it did in America, where they were stigmatized as hangouts for gangs, child molesters and drug users. Which is too bad, because they have much cooler stuff in the UFO Catcher machines (sort of like the Challenger machine, only harder):
Rhonda tried to get one of these cats, and ended up just buying one later at Mandarake. She was pretty bitter about coming up empty.
The games were cool too. I took a picture of the Taiko game for Sara:
Rhonda and I battled at the Azumanga Daioh version of Bubble Bobble. She played as Osaka, and I came out the winner as Chiyo-chan.
By ten we were exhausted. We took the JR train back to Shinjuku, made our way to the room and passed out.
All the pictures from day one can be found here.
We were supposed to get picked up for our tour to the sumo tournament at 12:30, but it was barely 9:30. We found the hotel where our tour met, then wandered around a little. We ended up at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
I say skip the tour and head to the observation deck. The view was impressive, even if the weather was not participating.
I saw this thing in the building and when no one was using it, I snapped a picture:
It's for smoking. You smoke behind the screen and that green thing sucks up all the smoke. If you made these in America you could make a mint.
Anyway, eventually the bus picked us up and drove us all the way from Shinjuku to Tokyo station, stopping along the way at a couple other hotels. It took about an hour to get to Tokyo, in the meantime we passed the Imperial Palace:
and Tokyo Tower. Finally, we arrived and met up with our tour guide. Anyone going to Japan and planning to take a tour in English should look into JTB Sunrise Tours. We might have been able to get by without a guide, but we wouldn't have known what was going on. The tour guide did a great job of explaining the rules and traditions of sumo to our group.
This is the trophy awarded to the winner of the tournament. There's also a little museum at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, the sumo stadium.
Here are some stills of the action, I'll post some video at a later date:
It's really something to see, and since there are only three tournaments a year, we were fortunate to be in Tokyo during the fall tournament. It's easy to see sumo wrestlers and just think, "big, fat guys," but they really are awesome athletes. Very agile, very powerful.
On the way back, we stopped in Akihibara, aka "Electric Town". It certainly lives up to the name, it's like Vegas or a scene out of Blade Runner:
This is also where I whipped out the plastic for the first time, buying up three Soul of Chogokin Evangelions (to match the Unit 02 Chogokin I bought at FanimeCon and an Evangelion model from the new PlayStation2 game. It was an Evangelion-kinda night:
The store we were in closed, so we checked out a couple arcades. I'm a big fan of Sega games, so naturally this caught my eye.
The arcade didn't die off in Tokyo like it did in America, where they were stigmatized as hangouts for gangs, child molesters and drug users. Which is too bad, because they have much cooler stuff in the UFO Catcher machines (sort of like the Challenger machine, only harder):
Rhonda tried to get one of these cats, and ended up just buying one later at Mandarake. She was pretty bitter about coming up empty.
The games were cool too. I took a picture of the Taiko game for Sara:
Rhonda and I battled at the Azumanga Daioh version of Bubble Bobble. She played as Osaka, and I came out the winner as Chiyo-chan.
By ten we were exhausted. We took the JR train back to Shinjuku, made our way to the room and passed out.
All the pictures from day one can be found here.
Tokyo Day 0: Thursday, September 23, 2004
Tokyo is far. It's a ten-hour flight and it's a fourteen-hour time difference. We took off Wednesday and landed Thursday afternoon. Luckily, American offers a non-stop flight out of San Jose for Narita. We kicked back, watched Harry Potter on the plane (not bad, but the second one was better), ate some sushi at dinner (hard to trust airline food, much less airline sushi) and knocked out.
We checked into our hotel, the excellent Hotel Century Southern Tower, in the early evening. We were so beat we went to the room and called it a night.
We checked into our hotel, the excellent Hotel Century Southern Tower, in the early evening. We were so beat we went to the room and called it a night.
Good times, good times...
So I got married. Hope everyone who could make it had a good time, we know we think we did (we'll have to see the video to confirm). It is completely true that the whole thing is a complete blur. I was just hoping I didn't screw up my lines.
My advice to young couples planning to get married: if you can afford it, go for the open bar.
So Rhonda and I tied the knot Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 3 in the afternoon. On Sunday we opened our gifts at her place, and headed back to our apartment in Campbell, near San Jose. Exhausted, we hauled our stuff up the stairs, collected a fat stack of bills, and opened the door to the beeping of the answering machine.
Rhonda got a call from her professor from last semester at San Jose State, where she is getting her teaching credential. He recommended her for a long-term temporary position at O.B. Whaley Elementary in the Evergreen School District, which is a really excellent school. In addition, there are some openings at that school next fall, and if they like her, she could be hired permanently.
An e-mail and a couple of phone calls later, and Rhonda was off to meet with the principal Monday morning. By the time we left Wednesday for our honeymoon, she had the job. She now has an emergency credential, a steady paycheck (goodbye, unemployment), and a roomful of first-graders.
Oh, and when I returned to work at Sun, I found out I'd been promoted. At least so far, married life is good.
So if you haven't seen much of us lately, that's why. That doesn't even mention all those new appliances and kitchenware we had to clean, or the messy apartment we let go to hell while we frantically rushed to pull off our wedding.
I haven't even got to play Fable or X-Men Legends very much. Paper Mario is still in the shrink-wrap. Sigh.
My advice to young couples planning to get married: if you can afford it, go for the open bar.
So Rhonda and I tied the knot Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 3 in the afternoon. On Sunday we opened our gifts at her place, and headed back to our apartment in Campbell, near San Jose. Exhausted, we hauled our stuff up the stairs, collected a fat stack of bills, and opened the door to the beeping of the answering machine.
Rhonda got a call from her professor from last semester at San Jose State, where she is getting her teaching credential. He recommended her for a long-term temporary position at O.B. Whaley Elementary in the Evergreen School District, which is a really excellent school. In addition, there are some openings at that school next fall, and if they like her, she could be hired permanently.
An e-mail and a couple of phone calls later, and Rhonda was off to meet with the principal Monday morning. By the time we left Wednesday for our honeymoon, she had the job. She now has an emergency credential, a steady paycheck (goodbye, unemployment), and a roomful of first-graders.
Oh, and when I returned to work at Sun, I found out I'd been promoted. At least so far, married life is good.
So if you haven't seen much of us lately, that's why. That doesn't even mention all those new appliances and kitchenware we had to clean, or the messy apartment we let go to hell while we frantically rushed to pull off our wedding.
I haven't even got to play Fable or X-Men Legends very much. Paper Mario is still in the shrink-wrap. Sigh.
Bachelor Party
I'm sure everyone wants to know what happened at the bachelor party. Too bad, no one brought a camera and so there's no evidence to destroy.
I will say the sheets at the Palms are of a very high thread count, Le Village Buffet at Paris is still the best breakfast in town, I still have never won at the sportsbook, and Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House is the best restaurant I have ever eaten in. I spent more on that meal than I did my first suit, but it was well worth it.
Oh, and never try to eat at the ESPN Zone on a Sunday during football season. You are not the only one who has had that idea.
I will say the sheets at the Palms are of a very high thread count, Le Village Buffet at Paris is still the best breakfast in town, I still have never won at the sportsbook, and Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House is the best restaurant I have ever eaten in. I spent more on that meal than I did my first suit, but it was well worth it.
Oh, and never try to eat at the ESPN Zone on a Sunday during football season. You are not the only one who has had that idea.
No blog progress - too much Halo
It's a good thing I haven't told everyone I know to check out my new blog, especially since it's just lying around dormant...sort of like I did this weekend.
That's not exactly true, Rhonda and I tried (in futility) to make it to Tokay's homecoming, where Sara was on the court (she didn't win, but had a great time). After a stay at the Hotel Caranza, we had breakfast with my mom and went to Gottschalk's to spend some wedding gift card. We had dinner at Rhonda's, visited a little with Peter and Joy, watched the Sox nearly blow it, then headed back to San Jose.
I dropped Rhonda off and headed to Marv's to play some Halo (oui, c'est Halo Deux) and poker. Had dim sum with Marv, Lou, Bubba, Rhonda and Rhonda (not a typo) and played some more Halo before heading home. Made a half-assed attempt to pay bills and clean up before calling it a night.
I have a ton of stuff to put up here, just haven't made the time. Promise to try harder tonight. Hopefully details about Vegas, the wedding, Tokyo, Rhonda's new jobby job, etc. etc.
That's not exactly true, Rhonda and I tried (in futility) to make it to Tokay's homecoming, where Sara was on the court (she didn't win, but had a great time). After a stay at the Hotel Caranza, we had breakfast with my mom and went to Gottschalk's to spend some wedding gift card. We had dinner at Rhonda's, visited a little with Peter and Joy, watched the Sox nearly blow it, then headed back to San Jose.
I dropped Rhonda off and headed to Marv's to play some Halo (oui, c'est Halo Deux) and poker. Had dim sum with Marv, Lou, Bubba, Rhonda and Rhonda (not a typo) and played some more Halo before heading home. Made a half-assed attempt to pay bills and clean up before calling it a night.
I have a ton of stuff to put up here, just haven't made the time. Promise to try harder tonight. Hopefully details about Vegas, the wedding, Tokyo, Rhonda's new jobby job, etc. etc.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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